Lucknow, Nov. 13 -- Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday said anybody attempting to breach the nation's security would have to pay a heavy price and recalled Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel's contribution to merging the erstwhile princely states in India after independence. "New India does not make any compromises with its security, sovereignty and integrity. New India gives a befitting reply to any attempts to breach its security. We have seen this in the past 11 years," the chief minister said at the ongoing Bharat Parv 2025 at the Statue of Unity complex in Kewadia, Gujarat. Uttar Pradesh was in focus as Wednesday was Uttar Pradesh Day at the Bharat Parv 2025 that celebrates India's unity from November 1 to 15 to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. "Anybody attempting to breach the nation's or the countrymen's security would have to pay a heavy price," said the chief minister. Yogi described 'Iron Man of India' Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel as the architect of a united India and said it was Patel's vision that made 563 princely states a part of India. He said Junagadh and Hyderabad were reluctant to accede to India and Patel had warned the rulers of the two states if they refused to mend their ways. He said the occasion of Bharat Parv 2025 has provided an opportunity for integration of India from Arunachal Pradesh in the east to Dwarka, Gujarat in the West. He said it was his second visit to the Statue of Unity, the first having taken place after its inauguration on October 31, 2018. The area has seen a lot of development in the past seven years, he said. Earlier, Yogi, along with deputy chief ministers Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak, UP legislative assembly speaker Satish Mahana, tourism and culture minister Jaiveer Singh, Jal Shakti minister Swatantra Dev Singh and senior officers of the UP Tourism Department paid floral tributes to Sardar Patel at the Statue of Unity....